Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-12-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

General McFeeleY has been appointed as actipg secretary Of ~ss, during the absence oi Secretary Endico,t
 The Pheuix Herald has ceased issue irg it's six page daily edition but sends cut a small supplement with each issue.
 The Fhenix Casttte says that prom iaent territorial ofi-ial has gone to Washington with the avo~ed object m view of securing Governor Znhcks removal.
 Congress can tea, an Arizona lesisla- ture ins,he introduction of bills. Five hundred and nnety-fcur were introduced in that body in one single day-Deoem- Der I3th.
 Pnenix is rejoicing in the possession os ripe ~atermelons and peaches, these fine December days rrescott has also enjoyed ,he luxury of riPe strawberries th,s month.
 Henry & Ives. having been discharged from custody on the accusation of hay ing stolen . $Ioo.ooo draft. proposes to sue his prosecutor for that sum for malicious prosecution.
 A young man of Phenix who located r6oa acres of government land three years ago new refuses Ia sell for less than SIo 900. In all human probati!lly very ,ia!e land in that valley ~ill be worthless than Srco per acre ~ithin five years.
 Bills have alIes6y ben introduced m congress for the acuission Of Dikota and Washington territories as states. The democratic m,j1:iy ~ill hardly GO justice ;o those tcrriioIies, however, by allowing these tiIs to pass.
 No,xiihstandinS the adverse report gwen b Arizona mines by the New York Herald, wi,h Ts alleged expose of the ToItilta mines. irquuIes for inning propei,ies m iii, s,oIion are more numerous nov than for years before.
 W- are in receipt Of a copy ct the San Feruando SJn, published at San Far nantio. Caiiiorni., by Frank Reed, for- merly p-orsieior ot ihe Hul1rook Cris!c. IL IS .rig!.,, lively sheet, full of news of the great boom in Southsrn California.
 W. C. Fl.r., who has made study of the resources fl this section for years, expressss the belief that within the radius of twenty miles of Mount Union, ten miles south os Prescott, there IS the richest nheral deposits in the Uni- ted States.
 Congress could get rid of small DOT ,iou of the surplus in the treasury by spending Ss,ooo,ooo or SI,Soo ooo In ihis senisosy surveying lands. prospect ing tor astesian water, constructing water s,os.ee dAns and other needed improvements here.
 The United States man-of-waf Iro- qaois was recently sen. to investigate the Topolooampo colony in Mexico. The commander reports fha, he rode Iso miles on horseback through Ovens col ony, and found oolonisls oortenied all had plenty to eat and weie receiving 5, per day. None 0: them wished to leave.
 Arizona is nov supplying son,hern Cali.ornia with nearly all the beef that market demands. ard lew days ago a b, of hay was received at San Diego di- rect from Phen.x and the shippers made 2 good prof, on the same. Hay IS sell ing by the carload m San Diego a S,s per ion.-Star.
 The Woman's Christian Temperance UIion. Of Phenix, have 6eoided to pur- chase iot and erect building upon 1t for the purpose of .f1rdIng home fer ihe homeless boys ard men who come 10 Phenix An appeal 10 the people for subscriptions ia that behalf was made recently ard in short time the people had subscribed Ss,5oo to this worthy p:jeot
 An ,xchanee notes the flc, that 'Ihere are seveuty-;wo sections of pubic Ian ds within the territory O: Arizona. which. by an ac; Of congress. have been set aside i1r a territorial u ivtrsty.' l, adds tha, ''.his vii bring a neat revenue to th.s insutuiiun when !; can command t." 1t deperds ve'y much upon where these seyeniy-.wu sections of land are located as 10 the amount of revenue they wil furnish.
 4 Washington special says: There Is every indication that the territories Of Dlko,a. Washington, MoIs 'na and pos s.o.y Utah wi. be admitted into state hood When Utah adopts new con- sil.utien, ~lch prohibns Perpe'ually p5lysamy within the ,errtorS. congress ~i.l make provtsion that in the event Of the terntories' admission into the union, no state clause of the constituti on nan De disturbed without the consens of copgress.
 They talk Q. running General Brt of ;h, Phrnix Advance, for mayor. In case Of his election Bit says he will iraugue- ra,e a number o. r-forms. He says : "I, propose as one very essertial and precautionary measure 10 abolish the d-a city council. Second, 10 change the limits of the ely so as the Advance cffice wi.i be the center Of Phenx; annul the rascally con,rac, for building that ci,y hall; sell the rlszi to ]. L. Ward for corral and make the Advance ,fe Ohici,l organ Of tie city. Then sir,